Private Press & Fine Printing
ANA THE RUNNER.
A treatise for princes & generals attributed to Prince Mahmoud Abdul. Engravings by Clifford Webb. Pp. 110(last colophon), frontispiece plus 5 full page illustrations; beige cloth, spine lettered in gilt, top fore-corner of lower boards a trifle bruised; t.e.g.; price-clipped dust wrapper, backstrip slightly faded; free endpapers faintly offset, a...... More
ARMADA.
Composer and Orchestrator, Dale Wood; Director, James Robert Minser. Pp. [xviii]+64+[6](list of Grove Plays of the past), pictorial double title page printed in blue, yellow & black, black & white text decorations, running headings printed in red; med. 8vo; pictorial papered boards, a trifle marked, spine faintly faded; fore-edges uncut;..... More
POEMS IN ENGLISH with Illustrations by William Blake.
In two volumes, comprising: Volume I. PARADISE LOST. Pp. [viii]+352, 15 collotype plates, title page with decorative border printed in red, black & white headpiece decorations, notes on the illustrations; Volume II. MISCELLANEOUS POEMS, PARADISE REGAIN'D & SAMSON AGONISTES. Pp. [vi]+284(last blank), 38 collotype plates, title page with decorative border..... More
CHRISTMAS GIFTS.
Pp. [8], title page vignette, 2 text, plus tailpiece illustrations [by Mary Norman]; roy. 8vo; pictorial cream paper wrappers;Mandeville Press, Hitchin, Herts., 1988. One of 60 copies signed by the poets and the artist. More
CHRISTMAS VISITS.
Pp. [16], 4 illustrations [by Mary Norman] printed in brown & blue; roy. 8vo; pictorial cream paper wrappers; Mandeville Press, Hitchin, Herts., 1985. Trade edition; one of 280 copies. More
MONCRIF'S CATS. Les Chats de Francois Augustin Paradis de Moncrif, translated by Reginald Bretnor.
Pp. 188(last blank) l0 plates, folding historical genealogy of the house of Brinbelle, the title page printed in red & black, notes, index; narrow roy. 8vo; dark blue cloth, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, with red cloth panels, the upper board with gilt roundel; bottom edges uncut; book label..... More
THE CHRISTMAS GRAB-BAG.
Pp. [iv]+28(last blank)+[2](colophon, blank), 2 coloured plates, coloured title page vignette and decorative initial, first page printed in green & red, title within triple rule yellow border, colophon printed in red, patterned endpapers; green patterned cloth boards, with printed paper title label on spine, the spine cloth a trifle faded;..... More
A COMMUNICATION TO MY FRIENDS.
[With an Introductory Note by C. D. Medley, George Moore's literary executor]. Pp. 86+[2] (colophon, blank), the title page device by Stephen Gooden printed in brown; qr. brown leather, spine lettered in gilt, grey papered boards, the bottom fore-corners faintly bruised; uncut; dust wrapper, slightly soiled, edges a trifle chipped;..... More
ULICK AND SORACHA.
Pp. [iv]+286, one engraved plate, small headpiece decoration printed in red; tall demy 8vo; cream buckram over bevelled boards, the spine lettered in gilt, fore-corners of boards a trifle bruised, the spine slightly darkened; uncut; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown, the text block faintly browned, a...... More
PURE POETRY: an anthology edited by George Moore.
Pp. xii+128, title and headpiece decorations; narrow med. 8vo; qr. parchment, spine lettered in gilt, grey papered boards, top edges faintly faded and top fore-corners bruised, the lower board slightly soiled, spine lightly foxed; uncut; bookseller's catalogue slip (2 lines) laid on upper pastedown above a small inked signature and..... More
NOTES ON BERMUDA.
Pp. 32, title page vignette; patterned papered boards, printed title label, slightly chipped; stitching lightly offset at inner margins of two leaves, a little light foxing; William Edwin Rudge, New York, 1931. More
FROM THE THIRD PROGRAMME.
A ten years' anthology. Imagination; Argument; Experience; Exposition. Edited by John Morris. Pp. x+340(last blank)+[2](colophon, blank), 4 full page illustrations, publisher's device on title page and at colophon; narrow med. 8vo; grey buckram over bevelled boards, spine lettered & ruled in gilt, the boards a trifle marked; t.e.g., others uncut..... More
AN ADDRESS:
delivered by William Morris at the distribution of prizes to students of the Birmingham Municipal School of Art on Feb. 21, 1894. Pp. [ii]+26(last blank); cloth backed printed papered boards, a trifle soiled, edges and spine cloth slightly faded, the top fore-corners lightly bruised; uncut; a couple of spots of..... More
ART AND THE BEAUTY OF THE EARTH.
Pp. [ii]+32(last blank); small demy 8vo; blue cloth backed light blue/grey papered boards, upper board lettered in black, the boards slightly faded and browned, top fore-corners lightly bruised, bottom fore-corners a trifle chipped, spine cloth faded; top edges uncut; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown, the endpapers..... More
THE JOURNAL OF JAMES MORRISON, Boatswain's mate of The Bounty. Describing the Mutiny & subsequent Misfortunes of the Mutineers together with an account of the Island of Tahiti.
With an Introduction by Owen Rutter and five engravings by Robert Gibbings. Pp. 244(last blank)+[2](colophon, blank), pictorial title page, 4 text illustrations; small f'cap. folio; blue and cream 'sail-type' binding, the spine lettered and ruled in gilt, the boards a trifle scuffed and soiled; t.e.g., others uncut; small circular red..... More
MOTTLED SHALLOWS. Selected verse.
Pp. [vi]+30+[6], printed in maroon & black; med. 8vo; qr. maroon cloth, patterned papered boards; uncut; dust wrapper; Garravembi, Willow Bend, Thumb Creek, NSW, 1991. One of 325 copies, signed by the author. More
KEEPSAKES: LIFE AND TIMES OF THE CENTRAL PACIFIC RAILROAD.
Edited by David Myrick. 12 illustrated single fold keepsakes [Complete]; cr. 4to; contained in a folder and slipcase; Book Club of California, San Francisco, 1969. *Issued to members of the Book Club of California in commemoration of the transcontinental railroad. More
GENESIS: Twelve woodcuts by Paul Nash with the first chapter of Genesis in the Authorised Version.
Pp. [56], French-folded, 12 full page illustrations; tall cr. 4to; black papered boards, lettered and decorated in gilt, small surface chip at foot of spine, fore-corners of boards faintly bruised, tiny spot to lower board; uncut; dust wrapper, soiled and worn, edges chipped and split, the front panel detached, large..... More
SERMONS BY ARTISTS. Paul Nash, David Low, Robert Gibbings, Eric Kennington, Leon Underwood, Stanley Spencer, Edmund Sullivan, Roger Fry, Will Dyson, Percy Smith.
Pp. 80+[2](colophon, verso blank), frontispiece and decorative initials by Elizabeth Corsellis; med. 8vo; bound by Sangorski & Sutcliff in qr. brown morocco, spine lettered in gilt, black & white patterned papered boards, faintly soiled; t.e.g., others uncut; binder's stamp at foot of upper pastedown, the free endpapers lightly offset; The..... More
SONGS FROM THE DRAMATISTS: THOMAS NASHE.
Pp. 209, woodcut frontispiece, title page vignette; parchment boards; uncut; dust wrapper, mottled fading, edges lightly chipped and split; bookplate of Geoffrey Farmer on upper pastedown, free endpapers heavily offset; Walpole Press, Norwich, 1929. One of 250 numbered copies. More
THE ISLE OF PINES.
Illustrated by Mike Hudson. Introduction by James Rigney. Pp. [iv]+viii+46(last blank)+[4](blank, colophon, verso blank), printed in black, yellow, orange, red & brown, illustrated in colour and black & white, pictorial endpapers printed with a sun motif in orange, yellow & red; impl. 8vo; full natural linen printed in orange, red..... More
THE NONESUCH PRESS HAS THE HONOUR TO ANNOUNCE ITS PUBLICATION IN 1963 OF A BIBLE . . .
Pp. 7+[1], plus [4] pp. insert from Genesis (text including 2 reproductions of l6th century woodcuts by Bernard Salomon), printed by the Stellar Press in Baskerville on wove cream paper, the insert on India paper, with reproduction of title page, printed in black and pale brown, plus retrospectus of the..... More
AN EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM NORFOLK ISLAND, 1792.
Pp. [12], printed in red & black; f'cap. 8vo; grey stiff paper wrappers with flap folds, printed paper title label on upper wrapper; printed for Peter Moore, Cambridge, 1985. Edition limited to 'about 100 copies', printed at the Cadenza Press of G. A. Beale. *Reprints a letter 'received from a...... More